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Asia is about to go poker crazy as a new movie has just premiered in Hong Kong that will be sure to take the cinemas by storm. Already Texas Hold’em Poker is seeing a gain in worldwide players and is bound to get far more players once the movie is officially released.

The story is about two poker playing rivals from Asia who are competing for the same title in a competition.

The movie was filmed in the world famous Asian casino capital of Macau and has already caused a stir when hundreds of players arrived at the city during the APT Macau Festival last August while the film was being shot. The film had plenty of willing extras as poker players flocked to the shoot to try to get a place in the film.

Due to the popularity of online gaming, Texas Hold’em has already seen a huge increase in popularity as players can compete from all over the world. It would seem that it is now going to have a major impact on the poker scene in Hong Kong as well as other Asian cities.

The premier of the film was well attended by an audience full of famous people along with the stars of the show Louis Koo and Lau Ching-Wan. Actor Louis Koo said, “This game is very popular in the West. Perhaps it is only just starting to take off in Asia. I had to learn mannerisms and skills from players outside Hong Kong.”

We can’t wait for this film to be released in the West so we can have the chance to catch up with it. It will be curious to see how the game is received by the Eastern players as it is such a relatively new game to them!

I wonder how long it will be before the Eastern players catch up with us Westerners with playing online party poker rakeback and PKR Poker Rakeback?.  I bet they can’t wait to get their hands on some brilliant rakeback deals.

Good poker players need a good deal of skill and expertise. To win at poker you need to have a really good memory and be great at reading other people whilst all the while maintaining your own unfailing ‘poker face’. Given all this, you have to wonder how online poker rooms can work – if the whole point of the game is for players to be able to read each other’s expressions, surely playing online against unseen opponents would make it impossible to win? But this could work both ways, and being invisible to your opponents could make it easier to keep that poker face even when you think you’ve got no chance.

Whichever way you look at it, playing poker online is a very different game. If nothing else, poker sites like Full Tilt Poker have brought the game to a much wider audience and give them the chance to bet as much or as little as they like. It’s much more tempting to take risks playing poker online, as the other players can’t see you so won’t be able to tell if you’re telling the truth. The downside to this is that you can’t see them either and have no way of telling if they have been dealt a good hand. You need to rely heavily on your memory but with a little bit of practise it’s possible to become as good at online poker as you can offline.

The danger of course is that a player who was new to the game and lost a lot of money could be tempted to go back and keep trying to win until they have nothing left. But provided you limit yourself to betting only what you can afford to lose then playing poker online could be a great chance to have some fun, make some money and learn something new. The only disadvantage to playing on popular sites like Party, Betfair and Absolute Poker is that they make their money by taking a cut of every pot, called the rake, as commission. It’s worth looking around for a good rakeback deal before signing up to a poker room, sites like raketherake.com have loads of great rakeback deals for most of the main online poker rooms.